Fiordelisa ("Jordanum Trivisanum de confinio S. Antonini: et Flordelisam cognatam meam").
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are," says Saint James, to disabuse Christians of that false idea which makes us reject the example of the saints, as disproportioned to our state.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

A load of pointless thunder now there lies Before their hands, to ripen for the skies: These darts, for angry Jove, they daily cast; Consum’d on mortals with prodigious waste.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The ‘Captain Freny’ to whom Barry owed his adventures on his journey to Dublin (chapter iii.) was a notorious highwayman, on whose doings Thackeray had enlarged in the fifteenth chapter of his IRISH SKETCH BOOK.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es —Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He, therefore, chose commissioners by lot to provide for the restitution of what had been seized by violence during the war, and others with extraordinary jurisdiction to decide causes belonging to the centumviri, and reduce them to as small a number as possible, for the dispatch of which, otherwise, the lives of the litigants could scarcely allow sufficient time.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

In the love-affairs that are treated in tragedies the lovers, as a rule, perish together: the reason for this is that the purposes of the species, whose tools the lovers were, have been frustrated, as, for instance, in Romeo and Juliet, Tancred, Don Carlos, Wallenstein, The Bride of Messina , and so on.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Tom justified The Discovery Caught in the Act Tom Astonishes the School Literature Tom Declaims Examination Evening On Exhibition Prize Authors The Master’s Dilemma The School House The Cadet Happy for Two Days Enjoying the Vacation The Stolen Melons The Judge Visiting the Prisoner Tom Swears
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Passing from grief to joy the dear child kissed me, calling me her father, and at last made me weep myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is his intelligence, his power of judging; the determining cause is in himself.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[159] the centre of distribution, where the transmission line joins the distribution circuits, must be maintained at very nearly constant voltage if no sub-station is located there.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

He looked across the stretch of water and judged the distance carefully.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

Just then Dorothy called Imogene to her room at the other end of the hall, and Priscilla took Virginia to their own room.
— from The Girl from the Big Horn Country by Mary Ellen Chase

Thenard (L. J.) Traité de Chimie élémentaire théorique et pratique.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

"It isn't every one who can secure the services of professional trunk packers." "'Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, Come and join the dance?'" caroled Elfreda off the key, as she did a true mock turtle shuffle around Grace.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

"Jones, you come and join the demonstration; come and 'old a flag, and listen to the ruddy orators, and go 'ome as empty as you came.
— from Plays : First Series by John Galsworthy

In fact, so eager were they to prostrate themselves before the great idol of slavery, and, like Balaam, to curse instead of blessing the people whom God had brought out of bondage, that they in bring up obsolete passages from the Old Testament to justify their downward course, overlooked, or would not see, the following verses, which show very clearly, according to the Doctor's own textbook, that the slaves have a right to run away, and that it is unscriptural for any one to send them back.
— from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by Ellen Craft

At their combined jerk the drawer came flying into space, and with it the remains of a white cardboard box with the monograms of B. C. and S. O. entwined by means of a cupid and a tiny wreath of flowers.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

As she bent a little over the youth and looked into his sleeping face, the likeness to Joan the Duchess came out more strongly than ever, emerging almost startlingly, as a race stamp stands out on the features of the dead.
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"That is just the danger," commented Mr. Roumann.
— from Through Space to Mars; Or, the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood